the big advantage is that other people are really only giving you 1% of their attention at any one time, if that. If you are really terrific, or unspeakably awful, you may bump that up to 10%, but 90-99% of people's time is spent thinking -- how do I look? how am I doing? What do they think of me? ME,ME,ME. You have to be deeply hideous to get even noticed, to get over the constant buzz of self-regarding noise in the human brain.

Consoling, huh?

yours, Peter T. (Gosh, I wonder what they thought of that remark?)